🌱 Remember when Dexter secured 100 new low-rent homes in 1966?

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• Remember when Dexter secured 100 new low-rent homes in 1966?

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Mainly cloudy, with a high of 87 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: A shower and t-storm; humid, temps: high: 86, low: 71.
• Sunday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 82 and low of 63 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Looking Back in Time 6/11/26 (standard-democrat.com) — A look back to June 11, 1966 notes a major milestone for Dexter: federal approval of a $1.3 million HUD loan to build 100 low-rent homes, including 70 for seniors. The column then shifts to Sikeston-area school, church, charity, and sports highlights from later decades, offering regional context for how nearby communities have changed over time.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday June 15

• JHVB Bootheel League TBA
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
• HS Volleyball
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
  8:00 am
• JH Volleyball
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
  11:00 am

Tuesday June 16

• HSVB Bootheel League TBA
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
• HS Beta - Nationals
  Bloomfield R-xIV Bloomfield, MO 63825
• BB vs Delta A JH JV V
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
• HS BASEBALL VS NEW MADRID @ NEW MADRID
  Malden R-i Malden, MO 63863
  3:00 pm

Wednesday June 17

• Kona Ice available for students to purchase
  Puxico R-vIII Puxico, MO 63960
• JV/V VB at Meadow Heights
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735
• HS BASEBALL VS SOUTH PEM. @ MALDEN
  Malden R-i Malden, MO 63863
  12:00 pm
• Cheer Camp Day 1 Elem Gym
  Bernie R-xIII Bernie, MO 63822
  1:00 pm

Thursday June 18

• BB vs Risco A
  Bell City R-iI Bell City, MO 63735

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Mercy Health posted a job opening for Housekeeping - PRN, Varies/Rotating in Dexter. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Poplar Bluff

• Pershing Medical Center to offer cochlear implant program and services (kfvs12.com)
• Music therapy helps Heartland veteran battle Parkinson's Disease (kfvs12.com)
• Missouri Highlands and partners unveil state-of-the-art mobi... (darnews.com)

Portageville

• At Scott County farm, first wheat harvest Mass honors 'unsun... (darnews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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